PUBLISHING IN AGEING & SOCIETY: TOP 10 TIPS FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Abstract With 43 volumes to its name (and coming out with 12 issues a year), Ageing & Society is an interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to advancing the understanding of ageing, and the circumstances of older people, in their socio-economic and cultural contexts. Committed to publishing original and high-quality research papers that substantially contribute to ongoing debates in social gerontology, this journal welcomes submissions that use different theoretical and methodological approaches as long as they aim to advance research, policy and practice and encourage the exchange of ideas across the broad audience of multidisciplinary academics and practitioners working in the field of ageing. By bringing specific attention to what Ageing & Society looks for in the hundreds of submissions that are sent to the journal, and the routines that the team of associate editors utilize, this presentation aims to give attendees valuable insights into how to write a paper if they wish to submit it to this journal.

Journal of Applied Gerontology and its commitment to publish and disseminate scholarship with international application.Following an overview of the growing internationalization of peer-reviewed submissions to the Journal on a variety of topics and from a range of perspectives, the presentation will highlight opportunities to apply gerontological scholarship to aging contexts worldwide.Concluding comments will examine how outlets for dissemination and authors themselves can better position their work to enhance their influence on aging in an international context.For more than 50 years, under the leadership of four editors and two publishers, The International Journal of Aging and Human Development (IJAHD) has featured multidisciplinary scholarship related to aging processes and older adults.With the publication of eight issues a year and over 1000 pages of scientific content, the IJAHD places emphasis upon psychological and social studies of aging and the aged.However, the Journal also publishes research that integrates observations from other disciplines that illuminate the "human" side of gerontology.A more recent focus includes midlife development, as well.About half (47%) of the publications in the IJAHD are from international colleagues.IJAHD is delighted to support new investigators as they navigate dissemination.This presentation will discuss tips for both international and US-based scholars for ensuring timely reviews and positive decisions for manuscript submissions, including such areas as key words, suggesting unbiased reviewers, formatting, writing mechanics, clearly-articulated methods, and a sound theoretical basis.

PUBLISHING IN AGEING & SOCIETY: TOP 10 TIPS FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sandra Torres, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Uppsala Lan, Sweden With 43 volumes to its name (and coming out with 12 issues a year), Ageing & Society is an interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to advancing the understanding of ageing, and the circumstances of older people, in their socio-economic and cultural contexts.Committed to publishing original and high-quality research papers that substantially contribute to ongoing debates in social gerontology, this journal welcomes submissions that use different theoretical and methodological approaches as long as they aim to advance research, policy and practice and encourage the exchange of ideas across the broad audience of multidisciplinary academics and practitioners working in the field of ageing.By bringing specific attention to what Ageing & Society looks for in the hundreds of submissions that are sent to the journal, and the routines that the team of associate editors utilize, this presentation aims to give attendees valuable insights into how to write a paper if they wish to submit it to this journal.

A MICRO CAREGIVING INITIATION: LATE-LIFE REMARRIAGE OF OLDER WIDOWED ARAB MUSLIM MEN IN ISRAEL
Chaya Koren 1 , and Hanan Ali Morshed 2 , 1. University of Haifa,Haifa,HaMerkaz,Israel,2. University of Haifa,Haifa,HaZafon,Israel New caregiving solutions are increasingly in demand within families undergoing rapid modernization processes such as the Arab Muslim family in Israel.According to patriarchal collectivist values, caregiving for aging men is provided by women within the extended Arab Muslim family.Modernization within the Arab Muslim society has enabled women to acquire higher education and increased employment opportunities outside the household.Therefore, older Arab Muslim widowers in need for caregiving can depend less on their daughters or daughter's in-law and as such seek other solutions.The aim of this presentation is to describe and examine the caregiving role of late life remarriage for older Arab Muslim widowers.Using a phenomenology framework, semi-structured qualitative interviews for understanding the experience of late life remarriage and its meaning were conducted with 14 Arab Muslim widowers who remarried between age 70 and 80, to never married middle-aged women.Findings describe and illustrate caregiving as a primary motivation for late life remarriage, reasons for caregiving as motivation to remarry and the wife's role as located between caregiver and spouse.Conclusions discuss the meaning of late life remarriage as a micro caregiving solution, dealing with modernization processes alongside preserving patriarchal collectivist values and gender-based roles.
Abstract citation ID: igad104.0956Providing primary care for grandchildren is known to have a significant impact on custodial grandparents' well-being.For married custodial grandparents, although their caregiving burden may spill over to marriage which can lead to negative psychological outcomes, it has rarely been examined.We examined how custodial grandparents couples' perceived stress in the spousal relationship due to parenting (PSSR) is associated with their psychological outcomes mutually using Actor Partner Interdependent Model.We further tested the moderating effect of coping strategies on the association between PSSR and psychological outcomes.Participants are grandparents couples providing full-time care to their grandchild in the absence of the grandchildren's biological parents (N_dyad = 193).We found that one's PSSR was associated with one's higher depressive symptoms for both grandmothers and grandfathers.Regarding anxiety symptoms, only grandmothers' PSSR was positively related to both their own and their spouses' anxiety level.In terms of coping strategies, we found that a higher level of problemfocused coping was related to higher levels of anxiety for both grandmothers and grandfathers when grandmothers experienced higher PSSR.A higher level of emotional coping was related to higher level of depressive symptoms in both grandfathers and grandmothers when they experienced a higher level of PSSR.A higher level of emotional coping was related to both grandfathers and grandmothers' higher level of anxiety when grandmother's PSSR was higher.Our research adds to the existing body of literature by emphasizing how emotional and problem-focused coping can moderate the connection between increased PSSR and psychological outcomes among custodial grandparents.

PERCEIVED STRAIN ON THE SPOUSAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG MARRIED CUSTODIAL GRANDPARENTS WITHIN THE PARENTING ROLE
Abstract citation ID: igad104.0957Francesca Falzarano, and Sara Czaja, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, New York, United States Dementia family caregiving is a heterogenous experience influenced by multidimensional inter-and intra-personal factors.The interdependence between the well-being of caregivers and care-recipients, and that feelings of mutuality and shared involvement in care responsibilities by both the caregiver (CG) and care-recipient (CR) influence family caregiver outcomes.This presentation will present findings from an analysis that examined the influence of caregiver/care-recipient demographic characteristics, care intensity (functional status, medical/nursing tasks), degree of cognitive impairment, and CR depression and quality of life on CG outcomes including burden, self-efficacy, depression, and positive aspects of caregiving.Baseline data were drawn from 99 family caregivercare-recipient dyads who participated in the Care Partners intervention, a non-pharmacological intervention for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers.Results showed that CG difficulty in performing medical/nursing tasks, greater distress related to the CR's functional impairment, CR's degree of cognitive impairment, lower levels of mutuality, and lower CR ratings of quality of life and depression were significantly related to higher CG burden, depression, and lower CG self-efficacy.Alternatively, being a male CG and greater CG distress related to performing medical/ nursing tasks and assistance with activities of daily living was associated with lower positive aspects of caregiving.Having a female CR and reporting higher levels of mutuality and preparedness was subsequently associated with more positive appraisals of caregiving.These findings underscore the importance of reciprocal interactions and the need to target both members of the dyad in interventions aiming to improve quality of life and well-being in dementia care partners.